模因论视角下的互文性阅读教学模式

模因理论是应用达尔文进化论的观点解释文化进化规律,揭示出语言的传播规律。互文性理论是西方结构主义和后结构主义文化思潮中产生的一种文本理论,显示出语篇话语的多重交织特性。模目论与互文性的内在联系,为大学英语阅读教学模式的改革提供了全新的视角。     

大学英语阅读教学中语篇分析的探讨

现代大学英语阅读教学正由从词到句的操练教学逐步转向新的模式——语篇教学。根据阅读整体教学理论,结合阅读教学模式,针对目前英语语篇阅读教学中存在的主要问题,分析了基于语篇分析的整体阅读教学模式,旨在倡导基于语篇的教学方法,提高学生的语篇意识,以期他们实现对阅读材料有整体和立体化理解。     

从互文性看英汉成语典故的翻译

互文性理论已广泛应用于翻译研究领域。互文性理论的提出为翻译研究注入了新的活力,也为成语典故的翻译提供了一个新的视角。成语典故的翻译要求译者不仅要熟练地运用两种语言,更重要的是要熟悉两种文化,即要掌握丰富的互文性知识,并采用正确的翻译方法,才能在目的语中准确地传达原语的意义。通常有以下几种对应的翻译方法：直译、直译加注、直译与意译相结合、文化替代、套译等,它们各有其长,亦各有其短,应互为补充,译者应把几种方法辩证地加以灵活运用,使文通意顺。     

试论英语写作教学的语言逻辑策略

英语写作是英语语篇的产出过程,英语语篇特点的理解和掌握对写作水平提高有重要影响。语篇突出显性衔接和衔接词高频出现的特点,与形式逻辑重形式关联和形式依据的特质相吻合,基于语言逻辑的英语写作教学策略有四:过程反映逻辑思维;语篇突出逻辑形式;句子传递逻辑概念;衔接词体现逻辑目的。     

以四级阅读为导向的大学英语阅读教学模式探究

大学英语四级阅读考试中的语篇难、时间紧等因素使得学生们得分率较低,而伴随着大学英语四级考试改革的进行,其阅读难度也越来越高,以大学英语四级考试为导向,运用关联理论对大学本科生在阅读过程中遇到的实际问题进行分析,并提出了以构建学生认知语境、语篇分析为基本步骤的新型大学英语阅读教学方法。     

浅论英语中的语篇衔接与连贯

在大学英语语篇分析中,衔接与连贯是很重要的因素。它影响着英语教学中的阅读,写作和翻译等各方面的问题。连贯是语篇的主要特征之一,衔接是实现语篇连贯的重要手段。本文从探讨衔接手段出发分析语篇的衔接与连贯。     

从系统功能语言学角度看歌词语篇中的语码转换

语码转换是双语或多语语言环境中的一种常见现象。改革开放以来,在以汉语为主体语言的歌词语篇中,英语和汉语之间的语码转换相当普遍。从文献上看,从系统功能语言学角度研究歌词中语码转换较少。歌词语篇中的语码转换不同于其他类型语篇中的转换,有其特定的原因和功能。这些原因及功能可以从系统功能语言学角度来进行分析。     

对比语言学视野下的中外学术论文摘要中的模糊修辞

通过对中外学术论文摘要中模糊限制语的对比研究,总结出模糊限制语在摘要语篇中的分布状况、语用功能和文体风格,以及中外学者在模糊限制语使用方面的异同和原因。旨在帮助学生掌握摘要语篇中的模糊修辞,增强学术英语写作能力,为更好地开展ESP教学研究作出一些有益的尝试。     

系统功能语言学视角下英语阅读能力构建与复合型人才培养

知识经济时代需要大量外语能力强的复合型人才.作为听说读写译五项基本技能之一,英语阅读能力的提高将有助于更好地学习英语,应用英语.系统功能语言学理论应用性很强,可从语篇的角度,以专业英语阅读语篇为例,应用系统功能语言学理论中主位推进模式理论,阐述系统功能语言学对英语阅读能力构建的作用及其对复合型人才培养的帮助.     

体裁互文性的网络体裁研究

网络体裁是信息交流技术所承载的交际工具和媒体在电子媒介的互动中所创生的结果.体裁互文性是形成语言的动态性或异质性的一个重要因素,是网络体裁的研究基础,以电子通讯为例分析了体裁互文性如何使体裁文本、话语社区、社会认知与社会批评等领域内创造了新的意义.     

Popular discourse and the ethical deficiency of ‘Third Way’ conceptions of citizenship

The article is in three parts. The first explores the connections and commonalities between different empirical investigations relating to popular discourses of citizenship and argues that these are constituted through the complex combination of overlapping discursive moral repertoires. The second part considers the discursive moral repertoires that constitute discourses of citizenship within the politics of the ‘Third Way’ project—as it is espoused in the British context—and argues that while such discourses accommodate notions of civic duty, moral obligation and enforced obedience, they seldom embrace a solidaristic ethic of responsibility. The third part discusses key findings from a more recent study of popular discourses of dependency, responsibility and rights. The findings suggest that what inhibits the translation of popular understandings of human interdependency into wider support for a form of citizenship based on collective responsibility and universal social rights is the hegemonic prevalence of a peculiarly individualistic conception of responsibility that seems to be consistent with Third Way thinking.     

Learning about Learning: Discovering the Work of Policy

The development of policy rests on skilled practice by knowledgeable practitioners – ‘policy work’ – and it is important to know what skills and knowledge this work calls upon, and where these are learned. Although there is substantial academic knowledge and courses in this field, many practitioners will argue that policy work is ‘as much an art as a science’ and is something that ‘you learn as you go’. This article reports on an exploratory study of policy practitioners’ accounts of their practice, what counts as knowledge, and in what contexts it is ‘useful’. We examine the discourses through which policy work is accomplished, the way in which people learn to do it, and the place of academic work in the constitution of these discourses. Drawing on our respondents understanding of policy practice, we discuss what more might be done to facilitate learning about the work of policy.     

Responsibility and the Deliberative Citizen: Theorizing the Acceptance of Individual and Citizenship Responsibilities

The responsibilities of citizenship have, in recent years, become a central concern in political and policy debates. Nevertheless, the practical meanings of such responsibilities have remained opaque. This article examines these meanings by asking what theories of citizenship have to say about how people engage with, and accept, their responsibilities. An examination of how the liberal, communitarian, republican and deliberative democratic theories explain the way citizens engage with their responsibilities shows that only deliberative democratic theory provides a nuanced range of concepts that may explain the acceptance of responsibility. In specific, Habermas's deliberative democratic theory is underpinned by a model of how the individual may develop a range of mental capacities to accept the extensive responsibilities associated with the deliberative citizen. By explaining how the individual grapples with her personal responsibilities, this approach also explains how she can deal with her responsibilities as a citizen. Four discourses through which people accept their responsibilities are thereby identified. These include egotistical, conformist, reformist and reflexive discourses. These discourses are explored by drawing on interviews with groups for whom the privatization of responsibility may have particular meanings. Using these interviews, this paper explores how people accept their personal responsibilities, thereby unfolding the discourses people use to deal with their citizenship responsibilities. In particular, by accepting the deliberative democratic contention that the individual already has the capacities to act as the deliberative citizen, it is possible to come to a view of just how people accept both their personal and citizenship responsibilities.     

Exclusion through citizenship: civic deliberation and its limits in the Peruvian blogosphere

Research on the exclusionary nature of citizenship has concentrated on the state as the agent who defines the limits of citizenship, framing it as a legal status. Exclusionary discourses and practices resulting from everyday notions of ‘good citizenship’ have received less attention. A stronger focus on these can contribute to our understanding of the relationship between citizenship and exclusion by highlighting exclusion through citizenship. In other words, it emphasises the ways in which practices and discourses of ‘good citizenship’ simultaneously produce its limits, consisting of practices and discourses which are considered ‘not civic’. In this sense, exclusion happens because of, rather than in spite of, citizenship. The article examines notions of civic deliberation among Peruvian bloggers, arguing that these included clear limits, which, if violated, allowed for exclusion.     

Anti-capitalism in the name of ethno-nationalism: ideological shifts on the German extreme right

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Sommer examines the (re-)emergence of anti-capitalist and anti-globalization themes within the ideology and discourses of the German extreme right. He argues that it would be short-sighted to interpret this development simply as another opportunistic attempt by the extreme right to incorporate Zeitgeist issues into its political agenda in order to appeal to a broader spectrum of supporters. An analysis of the latest campaigns of the Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (NPD)—the most successful extreme-right party in recent years—as well as the activities of groups that exist within the larger German extreme-right milieu, the so-called freie Kameradschaften, reveals that the taking up of social questions as well as anti-capitalist and anti-globalization themes marks a deeper shift within the political agenda of the extreme right in Germany. However, the analysis shows that racist and antisemitic issues do not disappear with this shift, but are linked with and incorporated into anti-capitalist and anti-globalization discourses.     

Individuality,Hierarchy, and Dilemma: the Making of Confucian Cultural Citizenship in a Contemporary Chinese Classical School

Is Confucianism compatible with citizenship? If yes, how? Cultural transformation in recent citizenship studies provides a theoretical junction to bring the two concepts together. In terms of cultural citizenship, this paper explores the making of Confucian cultural citizens by analyzing students’ discourses in a Chinese Confucian classical school. It reveals (1) the process of moral self-transformation, whereby the individualities are embedded into ethical relations by the extensive readings of classical literature; (2) practically discursive contradictions between individualism and authoritarianism that is based on the notion of a cultural hierarchy; and (3) the institutional predicament in striving for the recognition of cultural citizenship by the state and society. Finally, it concludes that the dilemmas in discourses and status are part of the contradictions in the overall Chinese party-state’s management of individualization.     

谣言、流言和传说——人类意义生产的三种非常信息传播形态

人是符号的动物。人类创造符号在于发现、生产和表达意义。在人类的表意系统中,反事实性的社会话语体裁占有相当重要的份量。从传播学的角度讲,反事实、非科学的社会话语主要是由三种非常规的信息传播形态——谣言、流言和传说——构造而成。三种信息传播形态的共性即非常性在于其传播脉络超脱于经验事实的约束而又很可能有用且可信。与此同时,三种非常的信息传播形态各有其独特的传播情境、功能和内容。     

Depoliticization,Citizenship, and the Politics of Community in Hong Kong

This article critically examines the government discourses on citizenship and community in Hong Kong from the 1960s to the present. By making special reference to the government's discourses on three public events—the 1966 Hong Kong Government 1966 Report of the Working Party on Local Administration Hong Kong Government Printer  [Google Scholar] Star Ferry riots, the 1981 riots, and scuffles such as those that took place at the Cultural Center, Tsimshatsui, on Christmas and New Year's Eve of 2002—it reconstructs the meaning of good citizenship as promoted by the Hong Kong colonial and Special Administrative Region (SAR) governments, respectively. These three public events are selected as cases highly indicative of what the government expects an ideal citizen to be because all of them aroused substantial public attention which subsequently invoked considerable government discourses and action. Citizenship is built upon a shared sense of community. Considered in this context, this article also traces the understanding of community of the governments, as it is intertwined with the notion of citizenship, through the development of government policies on youth and citizen education in the city from the 1960s onward. It is obvious that citizenship is constituted from both above (by the government) and below (by the civil society). By reconstructing the government discourses in this regard, this paper will shed light on part of the process of citizenship making in Hong Kong.     

Why the democratic nation-state is still legitimate: A study of media discourses

Focusing on media discourses, this article maps the communicative reproduction of legitimacy in Great Britain, the United States, Germany and Switzerland. It argues that political communication constitutes a distinctive dimension of legitimation that should be studied alongside public opinion and political behaviour. Research on legitimation discourses can help us understand why the legitimacy of established democracies remains stable in spite of the challenges of globalisation: Delegitimating communication tends to focus on relatively marginal political institutions, while the core regime principles of the democratic nation-state, which are deeply entrenched in the political cultures of Western countries, serve as anchors of legitimacy. These democratic principles also shape the normative benchmarks used to evaluate legitimacy, thus preventing a 'de-democratisation' of legitimation discourses. Finally, the short-lived nature of media interest as well as ritualistic legitimation practices shield the democratic nation-state from many potentially serious threats to its legitimacy.